Hybrid Data Platform Architect for Enterprise Analytics

Dominion Energy; Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

Dominion Energy is seeking a Solutions Architect for the Data Platform Engineering team to lead architecture, modernization, governance, security, and evolution of our enterprise data platform ecosystem.

The role acts as a technical leader, defining strategy, establishing engineering standards, guiding delivery teams, and influencing technology direction across the data landscape. This is a high‑impact IC with broad accountability.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in data, analytics, data engineering, or platform architecture.
• 5+ years serving in architecture leadership roles.
• Experience guiding enterprise-scale modernization initiatives.
• Ability to influence strategic technology decisions without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute architecture roadmaps for enterprise data platforms.
• Lead modernization initiatives to simplify legacy environments.
• Establish future-state architectures for cloud, hybrid, and virtualized data ecosystems.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend platform investments.
• Drive technical debt reduction and improve maintainability.
• Design architecture patterns that accelerate delivery of trusted data products.
• Define reusable ingestion, transformation, virtualization, and consumption frameworks.
• Partner with data engineering and business teams to reduce time-to-value for analytics initiatives.
• Enable scalable self-service analytics and reporting capabilities.
• Establish architecture standards that support AI, advanced analytics, and enterprise reporting.

Skills

Data architecture

Leadership

Stakeholder influence

Cloud architecture

Architecture governance

Education

Bachelor

Tools

Snowflake

Oracle Exadata

Talend/dbt

Data governance tools

Data observability tooling

Job description

Dominion Energy is seeking a Solutions Architect for the Data Platform Engineering team to lead architecture, modernization, governance, security, and evolution of our enterprise data platform ecosystem.

The role acts as a technical leader, defining strategy, establishing engineering standards, guiding delivery teams, and influencing technology direction across the data landscape. This is a high‑impact IC with broad accountability.